Flash back General Power Supply Design

• Avoiding the Seven Sins of Power Supply Design - power supply designers can commit seven specific sins that cost time and money
• Ceramic capacitors in dc/dc-input filters: OK, but watch out for those transients - Designers now have new reasons to use ceramic, rather than tantalum, capacitors. But be careful.
• Choosing a heat sink: some tips and recommendations
• DC Power Supplies - This is an introductory slide set on DC power supplies.
• Design guidelines help dc/dc converters work properly over long lines - some background and design tips help ensure optimum converter operation under various long line conditions
• Designing Power Supplies the Easy Way - Very High Voltage ICs, or VHVICs, make designing a power supply easy
• Fault Tolerant Power Supply System Uses the Droop Method of Current Sharing
• Feedback isolation augments power-supply safety and performance - properly designed isolated feedback is crucial to maintaining safety on many power supply designs
• Just-In-Time Power Supply Design - just-in-time power supply design is increasingly untenable because simple power supply is not so simple anymore
• Linear Supplies feel the (lack of) heat from switchers in low-wattage applications - ICs that implement advanced supply techniques are challenging linear supplies by lowering costs, cutting size, and increasing efficiency
• Linear Supplies feel the (lack of) heat from switchers in low-wattage applications - ICs that implement advanced supply techniques are challenging linear supplies by lowering costs, cutting size, and increasing efficiency.
• Linear vs Switching Supplies: Weighing All the Options - the choice between linear and switching board-level power supplies is sometimes clear-cut but can be sometimes hard to do
• Power Conversion in Line-Powered Equipment - application note in pdf format
• Power.national.com - collection of power supply design information from National Semiconductor
• Powering the big microprocessors - modern microprocessor power-supply design must furnish many amps at a tightly controlled voltage level and respond quickly to heavy load transients
• Power-supply reliability: a practical improvement guide - path to high reliability is a well-managed process that starts in the product's definition phase and continues long after the first shipment
• Proper layout and component selection control power-supply EMI - All power-supply components, including voltage regulators, inductors, and transformers, and their layout determine the amount of EMI a supply generates. An overview covers the mechanisms and physical principles governing the generation and propagation of power-supply electrical noise.
• Truth or Consequences of LDO Regulators - low-dropout regulator, better known as LDO, is a special type of regulator where the minimum required voltage between the input-output voltage (the dropout voltage) is significantly smaller than predecessor parts
• Using thermistors in temperature-tracking power supplies - Simple linearizing schemes make it easy to use thermistors to implement voltage-regulator designs with temperature-dependent outputs.